Transparent Assessment Framework for Reproducible Research

Functions to organize data, methods, and results used in scientific analyses. A TAF analysis consists of four scripts (data.R, model.R, output.R, report.R) that are run sequentially. Each script starts by reading files from a previous step and ends with writing out files for the next step. Convenience functions are provided to version control the required data and software, run analyses, clean residues from previous runs, manage files, manipulate tables, and produce figures. With a focus on stability and reproducible analyses, TAF is designed to have no package dependencies. TAF forms a base layer for the 'icesTAF' package and other scientific applications.

Tools to Create, Use, and Convert ecocomDP Data

Work with the Ecological Community Data Design Pattern. 'ecocomDP' is a flexible data model for harmonizing ecological community surveys, in a research question agnostic format, from source data published across repositories, and with methods that keep the derived data up-to-date as the underlying sources change. Described in O'Brien et al. (2021), .

General-Purpose Phase-Type Functions

General implementation of core function from phase-type theory. 'PhaseTypeR' can be used to model continuous and discrete phase-type distributions, both univariate and multivariate. The package includes functions for outputting the mean and (co)variance of phase-type distributions; their density, probability and quantile functions; functions for random draws; functions for reward-transformation; and functions for plotting the distributions as networks. For more information on these functions please refer to Bladt and Nielsen (2017, ISBN: 978-1-4939-8377-3) and Campillo Navarro (2019) < https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/order-statistics-and-multivariate-discrete-phase-type-distributio>.

Nonparametric and Cox-Based Estimation of Average Treatment Effects in Competing Risks

Estimation of average treatment effects (ATE) of point interventions on time-to-event outcomes with K competing risks (K can be 1). The method uses propensity scores and inverse probability weighting for emulation of baseline randomization, which is described in Charpignon et al. (2022) .

Bindings for the 'Geospatial' Data Abstraction Library

Provides bindings to the 'Geospatial' Data Abstraction Library ('GDAL') (>= 1.11.4) and access to projection/transformation operations from the 'PROJ' library. Please note that 'rgdal' will be retired during October 2023, plan transition to sf/stars/'terra' functions using 'GDAL' and 'PROJ' at your earliest convenience (see < https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/05/15/evolution4.html> and earlier blogs for guidance). Use is made of classes defined in the 'sp' package. Raster and vector map data can be imported into R, and raster and vector 'sp' objects exported. The 'GDAL' and 'PROJ' libraries are external to the package, and, when installing the package from source, must be correctly installed first; it is important that 'GDAL' < 3 be matched with 'PROJ' < 6. From 'rgdal' 1.5-8, installed with to 'GDAL' >=3, 'PROJ' >=6 and 'sp' >= 1.4, coordinate reference systems use 'WKT2_2019' strings, not 'PROJ' strings. 'Windows' and 'macOS' binaries (including 'GDAL', 'PROJ' and their dependencies) are provided on 'CRAN'.

R Interface to Geochemical Modeling Software

A geochemical modeling program developed by the US Geological Survey that is designed to perform a wide variety of aqueous geochemical calculations, including speciation, batch-reaction, one-dimensional reactive-transport, and inverse geochemical calculations.

Variational Mixture Models for Clustering Categorical Data

A variational Bayesian finite mixture model for the clustering of categorical data, and can implement variable selection and semi-supervised outcome guiding if desired. Incorporates an option to perform model averaging over multiple initialisations to reduce the effects of local optima and improve the automatic estimation of the true number of clusters. For further details, see the paper by Rao and Kirk (2024) .

The R Interface to 'SyncroSim'

'SyncroSim' is a generalized framework for managing scenario-based datasets (< https://syncrosim.com/>). 'rsyncrosim' provides an interface to 'SyncroSim'. Simulation models can be added to 'SyncroSim' in order to transform these datasets, taking advantage of general features such as defining scenarios of model inputs, running Monte Carlo simulations, and summarizing model outputs. 'rsyncrosim' requires 'SyncroSim' 2.3.5 or higher (API documentation: < https://docs.syncrosim.com/>).

Reliably Return the Source and Call Location of a Command

Robust and reliable functions to return informative outputs to console with the run or source location of a command. This can be from the 'RScript'/R terminal commands or 'RStudio' console, source editor, 'Rmarkdown' document and a Shiny application.

Nonparametric Models for Longitudinal Data

Support the book: Wu CO and Tian X (2018). Nonparametric Models for Longitudinal Data. Chapman & Hall/CRC (to appear); and provide fit for using global and local smoothing methods for the conditional-mean and conditional-distribution based models with longitudinal Data.